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This Week in Fifth Grade
Week 29
Figurative Language Review
Figurative Language Review
As your child begins to write more sophisticated texts, understanding how to use figurative language can bring their writing to the next level. Challenge your child to look for homophones and homonyms when they're reading and to make a list to use in their future writing. For an extra challenge, have them use their list of homophones and homonyms to create puns to liven up their writing!
As students begin to write more sophisticated texts, understanding how to use figurative language can bring their writing to the next level. Have your students look for homophones and homonyms in their reading and make a list to use in their future writing. For an extra challenge, have students use their list of homophones and homonyms to create puns!
Pun with Homophones
Worksheet
Pun with Homophones
Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Identical Idioms
Worksheet
Identical Idioms
This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Create a Pun
Worksheet
Create a Pun
Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Adding and Subtracting Fractions With Number Lines
Adding and Subtracting Fractions With Number Lines
Number lines are essential tools in supporting your child's burgeoning fraction addition and subtraction skills. Number lines can help your child visualize fractions as parts of a whole and strengthen their conceptual understanding. Encourage your child to use a number line to solve problems before they move on to abstract algorithms.
Number lines are essential tools in supporting your students' burgeoning fraction addition and subtraction skills. Number lines help students visualize fractions as parts of a whole and strengthen their conceptual understanding. Try using highlighters or colored pens to mark the number line as you model this method.
Blank Number Lines
Worksheet
Blank Number Lines
This versatile, blank number line template is a convenient, helpful aid for students as they tackle a range of problem-solving skills.
5th grade
Worksheet
More Adding Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions on a Number Line
Worksheet
More Adding Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions on a Number Line
Help your students practice adding mixed numbers and improper fractions with this printable worksheet. In this exercise, your class will add like fractions using a three-step process using number lines.
3rd grade
Math
Worksheet
Add Fractions on a Number Line #1
Worksheet
Add Fractions on a Number Line #1
Children add fractions with the help of a number line in this excellent practice worksheet!
4th grade
Math
Worksheet
Author's Point
Author's Point
About 50 percent of a fifth grader's reading time involves nonfiction text analysis. As your child encounters increasingly complex texts, providing ample opportunities to practice this skill. Encourage your child to use graphic organizers to record the main idea and supporting details as they read, and remind them to defend their answers and opinions with textual evidence.
About 50 percent of a fifth grader's reading time involves nonfiction text analysis. As students encounter increasingly complex, domain-specific texts, offer ample opportunities to practice this skill. Use graphic organizers to record the main idea and supporting details, model cohesive written responses, and remind students to defend their answers and opinions with textual evidence.
Tennis: Nonfiction Text
Worksheet
Tennis: Nonfiction Text
Use this high-interest text about sports to explore what point the author is trying to make.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Basketball: Nonfiction Text
Worksheet
Basketball: Nonfiction Text
This sample nonfiction text about basketball helps students to explore author's point of view.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Video Games: Nonfiction Text
Worksheet
Video Games: Nonfiction Text
Use this worksheet to provide an engaging text for your students as they practice reading and analyzing an author’s claims.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Reviewing Your Writing
Reviewing Your Writing
Many children resist revision because they feel they are "done," or because they are attached to their first draft and don't want to make changes. Instead of revising their work, practice with sample texts, reviewing specific skills like correcting run-on sentences. Once your child is comfortable with the revision process, they will be ready to try it on their own writing.
Many students resist revision because they feel they are "done," or because they are attached to their first draft and don't want to make changes. Instead of revising student work, practice with sample texts, reviewing specific skills like correcting run-on sentences. Once your child is comfortable with the revision process, they will be ready to try it on their own or on their peers' writing.
Partner Proofreading
Worksheet
Partner Proofreading
Partners will work together to complete this worksheet as they participate in peer editing.
5th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
The Pentagon Tour Tips and Tricks
Worksheet
The Pentagon Tour Tips and Tricks
Read through a student’s how-to and tips for touring the Pentagon. While reading, students will decide if they should use a preposition or conjunction in the text.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Editing and Revision Practice
Worksheet
Editing and Revision Practice
Children learn editor's marks for a variety of grammar, formatting, spelling, and punctuation errors, then practice using them to read and edit a short paragraph.
4th grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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